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Ari Berman
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Ari Berman
Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about American politics, foreign policy and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, C-Span and NPR. His first book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, was published in October 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux—for whom he is now working on a history of voting rights. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and political science.
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The president's re-election campaign manager has alienated grassroots constituencies.
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Tuesday's State of the Union will be one of the most closely watched of Obama's presidency. Five prominent Democratic strategists tell The Nation how Obama can stand strong against a divided Congress.
In year three, will Obama heed the lessons of Clinton or Reagan?
Introducing the Republican Party's rising stars.
Grassroots activists and Beltway insiders are fighting for the soul of Obama's Democratic Party.
MoveOn.org is leading a coalition of advocacy groups to overturn the Supreme Court decision.
A progressive moment was supposed to follow Obama's election. Robert Kuttner's A Presidency in Peril asks where it went.
Bill Halter’s challenge to Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln is revving up Razorback progressives, and Halter is now trailing by single digits. Will Tuesday's primary result in a run-off?
The coal industry presents itself as committed to sustainability--but is it?
Howard Dean's fifty-state strategy remade the Democratic Party. What comes next?
